FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

[Dieter]

In message <cone.1254181613.595484.57677.1000 at zoraida.natserv.net>, Francisco Reyes writes:
> Steven Hartland writes:
> 
> > Just noticed the following posted on phoronix:
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd8_ubuntu910&num=1
> > Comments?
> 
> This was discussed in detail in slashdot.. starting with the fact that most 
> likely debug switches were not turned off for FreeBSD.

"All of the FreeBSD and Ubuntu options were left at their defaults."

My question is why is FreeBSD's disk i/o performance so bad?
Not just in the benchmarks with debugging on, but in real world usage
where it actually matters.